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Message-ID: <20110817033954.GP20655@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:39:54 -0700
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: ext4_mkdir should dirty dir_block with the parent
	inode

ext4_mkdir calls ext4_handle_dirty_metadata with dir_block and the inode "dir".
Unfortunately, dir_block belongs to the newly created directory (which is
"inode"), not the parent directory (which is "dir").  Fix the incorrect
association.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@...ibm.com>
---

 fs/ext4/namei.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 2b5c34b..a2c2855 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1866,7 +1866,7 @@ retry:
 	ext4_set_de_type(dir->i_sb, de, S_IFDIR);
 	inode->i_nlink = 2;
 	BUFFER_TRACE(dir_block, "call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata");
-	err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, dir_block);
+	err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, dir_block);
 	if (err)
 		goto out_clear_inode;
 	err = ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
--
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